Thanks, David, for your response.  I suspected it might not be that easy to fix. 

I hadn't thought of making a custom command which only used mandatory arguments.  I'll try it out and see if I like it.

Thanks,

Scot


On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 3:16 PM, David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de> wrote:

Scot Becker wrote:

>If I put a LaTeX citation command inside one of org's inline
>footnotes, no problem, thus:

>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,\footnote{\cite{rowe_acts_2007} }
>consectetur adipisicing elit,

>But if I need an optional argument, no dice.  This:

> ex ea commodo consequat.[fn:: \cite[56]{fitzmyer_one_2007}] Duis aute irure dolor

>exports to LaTeX like this:

>ex ea commodo consequat.[fn:: \cite[56]{fitzmyer_one_2007}] Duis aute irure dolor

>(i.e. there is no \footnote{} macro created)

>For consistency in my markup, I would rather use org's inline
>footnotes for citations like this (which sometimes number several
>inside a footnote).   If I can't, I'd just go ahead and use LaTeX
>\footnote{} macros right in my org files.

>Is the present behaviour likely to be fixable?  Or should I just
>write my footnotes as LaTeX \footnotes{}?

This does not look like easy to fix: It are the square brackets of the
\cite command that prevent Org mode from recognizing the inline
footnote.

You could try to work with a LaTeX hack, something along:

,----
| \newcommand{\mycite}[2]{\cite[#1]{#2}}
`----

This would provide the macro \mycite with two arguments given in
curly brackets that is expanded to the \cite sequence.

HTH
 -- David

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